Initiatives to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Business Activities

Fujitsu General Group aims to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from the business activities of the entire Group to completely eliminate by FY2050. We are expanding the use of renewable energy, and encouraging each employee to review their daily work processes to reduce redundancies. We also share best practices across departments to achieve improvements. In FY2022, we promoted the conversion of electricity used to renewable energy and reduced CO₂ emissions by about 52% compared to FY 2013.

Conversion to Renewable Energy

Fujitsu General Group is promoting the use of renewable energy for electric power used in our business activities.Solar power generation systems have been introduced at 4 domestic and overseas locations by FY2020 since its introduction to Fuji Eco Cycle in 2017, and we introduced the system to 3 new domestic and overseas locations^(Note1) between FY2021 and FY2022. By operating the solar power generation system, switching to a renewable energy power menu, and procuring renewable energy power certificates, we switched approximately 100% of the electricity we use to renewable energy in FY2022, reducing CO₂ emissions by 44,405 tons.

We will continue our efforts to increase the number of sites suitable for solar power generation to further promote shifts to renewable energy.

Improvement of Transportation Efficiency

Fujitsu General Group is working on improving transportation efficiency of products and parts. In the North America region, long distance transportation by trucks has been frequently used, but we have reduced long distance truck deliveries and CO₂ emissions by modal shift efforts. Since fiscal year 2021, we have been promoting improvement of transportation efficiency by co-locating parts and products.

In addition, the Aomori Business Office, manufacturing air conditioner fan motors, has been making the change from their conventional truck transportation system to rail for product shipping. This switch started in 2022, and is expected to contribute to the reduction of 200 tons of CO₂ emissions annually.

Reducing Electricity Consumption at Air Conditioner Evaluation/Test Facilities

In test rooms where the performance of air conditioning equipment is evaluated, a large amount of electricity is consumed as temperature conditions are varied on the indoor and outdoor unit sides and cooling and heating performance is measured. Fujitsu General Air Conditioning R&D (Thailand) Co., Ltd., our air conditioner development base in Thailand, will optimize the preliminary operation time in the test preparation work and utilize timer operation on holidays and at night, based on the successful case of the Kawasaki test room, to achieve the following targets In FY2022, we were able to reduce CO₂ emissions by 766 tons (32%) compared to FY2018. FUJITSU GENERAL (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD., our air conditioner development base in China, also started power management of test facilities in FY2020 and was able to reduce CO₂ emissions by 212 tons (20%) in FY2022 compared to FY2020.

Efficiency Improvement of Business Trips

The Fujitsu General Group is actively introducing and utilizing IT to reduce the number of business trips and reduce the environmental burden.

Utilizing Office365, which was introduced in fiscal 2018 for expatriates at all domestic and overseas bases, especially after March 2020, as a measure to prevent the spread of new coronavirus infections, we will cancel business trips in Japan and overseas and work from home. As a result of the promotion, efforts to establish remote conferences accelerated at a stretch, and at the same time, it led to the effect of reducing CO₂ emissions associated with commuting and business trips.

From FY2021, as opportunities for business travel increase in line with deregulation, we will continue to improve the efficiency of business travel by effectively utilizing the advantages of remote meetings, such as screen sharing, and by using both face-to-face meetings and remote meetings.